YMMV / My Friend Pedro

• Awesome Music: Battlejuice's "Low Life On The Highway", which plays during the epic motorcycle chase between you, Mitch and all his men.
• Best Level Ever: The Null District is often pointed to as the highlight of the game, being a visually diverse and engaging set of levels that introduce many cool gimmicks, like the skateboard, shotgun, and grappling hooks.
• Disappointing Last Level: The first half of the game is very different from the second half — while the first half is mostly based around momentum-based trick platforming and Tony Hawk style tricks, the second half becomes almost a puzzle platformer with combat instead. The game begins throwing more and more enemies at the player and the arenas become far less interesting, mostly based around figuring out the exact right way to proceed through rather than improvising like the early levels.
• Magnificent Bastard: Pedro is the Imaginary Friend of the Protagonist who willingly helps him plan the downfall of his criminal family. After the protagonist gives himself amnesia, Pedro tricks the now amnesiac vigilante into killing his family and eliminating the mob, teaching him some fighting techniques and encouraging him to get creative with them as to stylishly kill enemies. After the vigilante figures out his plan, Pedro reveals that his final request was to forcefully make him kill himself should he figure out, a task that Pedro reluctantly carries out, engaging him in mental combat when the vigilante resists.
• Spiritual Adaptation: A crazed vigilante with a healing factor, wearing a big round-eyed mask, shoots through an army of bad guys while talking to the voices in his head? Let's be honest, My Friend Pedro is Deadpool: The Video Game without a comic book license.
  • Multiple elements of the plot itself bears some resemblance to Only God Forgives. Notably, the protagonist is a direct relative to the family of antagonists who run a crime syndicate, and the protagonist is wrought with guilt over their collective villainous acts, in turn making him an ineffectual villain. As a result, he decides to atone for his misdeeds by defecting via an enigmatic guide who symbolically has traits resembling that of a deity. By the end of his quest for redemption, the villains have not only been defeated but the protagonist seems to have sacrificed some part of themselves in the process (depending on how you read the protagonist's face reveal after having defeated the final boss).

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